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  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  zero is an awful feeling. On my first few weeks, I couldn’t even squat ... , not because I wasn’t working out any more, but due to an awful ... haven’t made it clear, he is really into powerlifting"]an article about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... class and isn't as engaging as i expected, so lecture is just a 2-hour void :/ and i don’t know what’s going on half the time but i pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  of high school I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know if I ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... schools were [annotation note="I didn't do sports, I didn't have a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... done. In fact, within the last few weeks, I've realized that this isn't ... bookshelves. Except, as I realized, my sophomore year wasn't a waste. Far from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you. We don’t want to say something like: if you feel X, then you will ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  textbook is too complicated. You really can't know it all. And sometimes ... from Cafe 472. The Brass It's ok to take breaks. No, I don't mean put your work aside and stress about the things you have to do. I don't mean

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn't ... , especially on academics and atypical hobbies that didn't revolve around the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  let me watch it. Realizing my obsession wasn't going away, they hid the VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn't

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

   complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was ... poor heart T-T. As you can guess, I'm not a big fan of physics. Oh well ... recommend looking up Megaman if you don't know what it is, it's a really

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

   complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  share a few thoughts. of course, i won't pretend that my experience ... to matter as much as the things i didn't even think to think about ... everything. MIT is a place full of "unknown unknowns" -- things you don't even

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to ... you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

   complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... way and had a bonding experience that can't be quantified in lecture ... physics is really your thing you shouldn't underestimate this class. 3

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  , for which (if you aren’t familiar) you can intern abroad in a foreign ... whomever is in charge and see if there is leniency. I definitely don't ... said she thought she could probably find something for me, it wasn't

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016